Iain C's "Listen to Nick Cave when you're drunk" thread

So only post here if you're drunk, and listening to Nick Cave. The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds or Grinderman.

So I'm listening to The Birthday Party and drinking whiskey and coke. What about you?

If you've never listened to Nick Cave before, maybe now's a good time to start?

Another quick blast of 'Mr. Clarinet' before bed, on top of six Becks Vier. I reckon Phillip Glass should be along soon as well.

fuck yeah, I even have proof from wanother WAtmmer that I've been playing Nick Cave all night

np : "Thirsty Dog" - Let Love In

"With an ashtray as big as a really fucking big brick"

I just put the Grinderman record on. When this came out, my ex girlfriend really hated it. So when we broke up I played it a whole lot!!

Fucking love it.

'night peeps. Next time I visit I'll bring 'Hard On For Love' and some shit lager with me.

  Caretstik said:

Hard On For Love'

I love that song. it seems that any time someone mentions a Nick Cave song here, someone else comes along and says how much they love it.

Let's face it, a Nick Cave subforum would see a lot more traffic than the fucking Plaid subforum...

/never bought a Plaid record in his life

Blasting The Mercy Seat as we speak.

I'm obviously a Plaid fanboi, but I'm not arguing with that Iain. I was listening to Nick Cave before Plaid existed (I think), and he's hardly unpopular nowadays.

Thats the ultimate failure of the electronic music movement... in the end thers perhaps like 15 great albums, rest is "good". Nick Cave by himself has at least 5 great ones

I'm tempting putting on Murder Ballads. It's like its own entity in his discography

I am drunk, and listening to Nick Cave in the sense that Grinderman, that Orpheus double CD, and his newest album are all in regular rotation in my discman. I believe I'm posting here on a semantic issue and am not obeying the thread rules as they were intended.

However, I would like to say that Nick Cave is pretty fucking awesome and I wish I were listening to him right this very moment.

i can't

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A BIG bronze statue of Nick Cave might soon look down on Warracknabeal, just like the rock singer.

 

While mocking his birthplace as conservative and strangely lawless, Cave has long sought a statue.

 

The one he favours would show him bare-chested on a rearing stallion.

 

And after a new approach to the council, what seemed like a joke is gaining traction.

 

The council says it will look at the proposal and dares him to go the whole hog and build a 50m-high Nick Cave with a viewing platform.

 

Cave, famed for fronting seminal rock bands the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, has told a local paper he has already invited celebrity friends to the unveiling.

 

"Russell Crowe, my mate, has promised to attend," he told the Wimmera Mail Times by email. "Snoop Dogg, a rapper, says he'll come if they let him into the country.

 

"Kylie Minogue said she wouldn't miss it for the world; she even promised to wear her gold lame hotpants."

 

Yarriambiack Shire Mayor Andrew McLeod said the statue could be an added tourist attraction to the town.

 

Mr McLeod said the town, population 2600, had "a dry creek bed and a few dry lakes" for attractions.

 

He said the town wouldn't pay for a statue but "if he's internationally known, you'd say he'd be making more money than me".

 

Cave said the Warracknabeal statue would make Gundagai's Dog on the Tuckerbox pale by comparison.

 

He wants it on a roundabout, but the only one spare is earmarked for a statue of a dingo and her pups.

 

"I ask you, what could be more indigenous to Warracknabeal than me?" Cave complained to the paper. "I was bloody born there."

 

Shire chief executive Ray Campling said latest indications were that the Cave camp was serious.

 

"Why not go the full hog and erect a 50m statue of Nick riding a horse?" he said. "You could have a tourist information booth and people climbing up the horse's neck and viewing out of the nostrils."

  Betty said:

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A BIG bronze statue of Nick Cave might soon look down on Warracknabeal, just like the rock singer.

 

While mocking his birthplace as conservative and strangely lawless, Cave has long sought a statue.

 

The one he favours would show him bare-chested on a rearing stallion.

 

And after a new approach to the council, what seemed like a joke is gaining traction.

 

The council says it will look at the proposal and dares him to go the whole hog and build a 50m-high Nick Cave with a viewing platform.

 

Cave, famed for fronting seminal rock bands the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, has told a local paper he has already invited celebrity friends to the unveiling.

 

"Russell Crowe, my mate, has promised to attend," he told the Wimmera Mail Times by email. "Snoop Dogg, a rapper, says he'll come if they let him into the country.

 

"Kylie Minogue said she wouldn't miss it for the world; she even promised to wear her gold lame hotpants."

 

Yarriambiack Shire Mayor Andrew McLeod said the statue could be an added tourist attraction to the town.

 

Mr McLeod said the town, population 2600, had "a dry creek bed and a few dry lakes" for attractions.

 

He said the town wouldn't pay for a statue but "if he's internationally known, you'd say he'd be making more money than me".

 

Cave said the Warracknabeal statue would make Gundagai's Dog on the Tuckerbox pale by comparison.

 

He wants it on a roundabout, but the only one spare is earmarked for a statue of a dingo and her pups.

 

"I ask you, what could be more indigenous to Warracknabeal than me?" Cave complained to the paper. "I was bloody born there."

 

Shire chief executive Ray Campling said latest indications were that the Cave camp was serious.

 

"Why not go the full hog and erect a 50m statue of Nick riding a horse?" he said. "You could have a tourist information booth and people climbing up the horse's neck and viewing out of the nostrils."

I lolled hardcore.

Also, I do not regeret starting this thread.

Sorry to break the rules, but np: Hey Joe.

Be proud of this thread.

I'm not drunk any more either, rules were made to be broken. Especially by Nick Cave, that dashing outlaw.

He'd be proud.

ive never listened to nick cave so what should i start with????

That's a big fat IT DEPENDS.

My introduction was Tender Prey, The Mercy Seat scared me shitless and I fell in love.

I only know 'Kicking Against The Pricks' (an album of excellent cover versions) and 'Your Funeral...My Trial' well, which were both from 1986, but I would recommend those two albums to anyone. Also heard 'Henry's Dream' a bit which was a great album. I'm not a hardcore fan obviously, but got massive respect for the man.

I'm not a hardcore fan really either, the Bad Seeds stuff is all pretty mixed for me, but the good stuff is absolutely brilliant. I'm more into the Birthday Party and I've got everything they did but they're not for everyone.

If you want to listen to the Birthday Party I would start with Hee Haw.

Grinderman is an amazing album too for more recent Nick Cave stuff, it's a noisy "garage rock" sort of band formed by members of the Bad Seeds, it's got a really different sound to it. It's not very much like The Birthday Party either. Nick Cave just covers so much ground it's amazing.

This song is both brilliant and funny:

It's called No Pussy Blues!

  Philip Glass said:

Thats the ultimate failure of the electronic music movement... in the end thers perhaps like 15 great albums, rest is "good". Nick Cave by himself has at least 5 great ones

 

 

I'm tempting putting on Murder Ballads. It's like its own entity in his discography

i love murder ballads

stagger lee ftw

Slight change to last night's plan, got 'Jack's Shadow' with Pinot Grigio.

Oh yes, here we go, 'Hard On For Love'. "It's as hot as hell in here..."